PayPal has redesigned its app to put paying your friends front and center

PayPal has given its mobile app for iOS and Android a serious revamp, furbishing the software with a new, cleaner look, and putting its most popular function — sending and receiving money — front and center.

The company says that in the last two years it's seen a 100 percent growth in the number of peer-to-peer transactions made using the app, and has angled the redesign around this. This includes creating a new personalized hub that lets users see the people they pay and get paid by most, as well as making it simpler to request money from their mobile contacts. Basically, it sounds like PayPal wants to be a little bit more like millennials' favorite payment app Venmo — which PayPal bought in 2013, and which, coincidentally, crossed the...